tend

stretch

Usage

  • distend

    If a part of your body distends, it becomes swollen and unnaturally large.

  • tendentious

    Someone who is tendentious is biased in their perceptions and opinions.

  • intend

    If you intend to do something, you plan on doing it.

  • extend

    When you extend something, such as time or a rubber band, you stretch it out, make it bigger or longer, or increase it.

  • attend

    When you attend something, such as a concert or a play, you go to it or are present at it.

  • attendance

    the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)

  • attendant

    being present (at meeting or event etc.) "attendant members of the congreation"

  • attendee

    a person who is present and participates in a meeting

  • bartender

    an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar

  • contend

    maintain or assert

  • distended

    stretched out

  • portend

    indicate by signs

  • pretend

    imagined as in a play

  • pretender

    a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)

  • superintendent

    a person who directs and manages an organization

  • tend

    have a tendency or disposition to do or be something

  • tendency

    an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

  • tender

    (of plants) not hardy

  • tendered

    offered

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